Open Bar: Drinks are on the Supreme Court

[hooplala]

I am genuinely baffled. Have they not watched what he's done? Is owning the libs or whatever nonsense is driving them really worth that?


On a lighter note, I'm super pleased to be subbing for the teacher I'm covering for until Thursday. I know literally all his kids very well and they're a fucking delight.

They hate what he's doing. The carbon tax alone makes them apoplectic.

[Doktor Howl]

Cain,

We have another spam bot with a convenient email address in the waiting room.

[Cain]

Someone beat me to it. Sorry, was AFK.

[The Wizard Joseph]

Seems I've managed to fall upstairs this time. I've gotten a job basically making Servo motors for things that fly and go boom for the government. There was a time when doing this would have given me an ethical conundrum, but now as an older man I have no such concerns about putting my skills to the war machine for reasonably good pay. Much about the job will be new to me as it's not Electronics per se, but I look forward to the challenge and will basically be getting paid to learn. I'm very excited and realize that I am also very fortunate indeed to have found such an opportunity through a good friend.

There's a part of me that thinks that I am not in fact one of the good guys. Not sure that I ever was, but I am definitely down for a good time while I'm here on Earth. For me a good time in part means using some of my newfound resources for shenanigans political and otherwise. I intend to support Q.G. to this end.  I will also break a little bit off for PD. Not just because I use the Forum but because having the PD freely available online seems to me an important symbolic and spiritual gesture.

The position I've taken will likely involve a lot of overtime and I have a 45 minute commute, so I'm basically dedicating a huge chunk of my life to this and wish to use the resources as I see fit. I see fit to give about 5% to what discordia means to me. I've never been one to tithe regularly, but I'm only giving half of what YHVH would Allegedly ask. I may not ever be on the front lines of a protest, But I can Harvest resources and support those that are. In the end Logistics is one of the most important factors in a war, And like it or not I am at war. I'm not an idealist and I'm a dirty fighter. I throw my lot in with discordia. We shall see what comes of it.

[Doktor Howl]

Seems I've managed to fall upstairs this time. I've gotten a job basically making Servo motors for things that fly and go boom for the government. There was a time when doing this would have given me an ethical conundrum,

I am currently being shamed by some friends on FB for this kinda shit, and I'm like "This was me all along."

All humans must be destroyed.

[The Wizard Joseph]

Seems I've managed to fall upstairs this time. I've gotten a job basically making Servo motors for things that fly and go boom for the government. There was a time when doing this would have given me an ethical conundrum,

I am currently being shamed by some friends on FB for this kinda shit, and I'm like "This was me all along."

All humans must be destroyed.

It took a fair amount of therapy, meditation, and some martial arts practice for me to come to terms with my destructive side and stop guiltily internalizing it to the detriment of my mental health.

You see I'm just as destructive as any other of the mad primates on this planet, I'm just not REPRESSING anymore like the others. This may make me a social pariah among idealists seeking 'peace', but fuck them. I'm healthier this way. Why self destruct when you can just destroy instead?

All humans WILL die
And Who am I
To play the preserver?

[Fujikoma]

I recently met a young woman I think can tolerate me who drives me crazy. Hopefully this turns out well. To be honest I thought it was impossible, turns out I just hadn't stumbled around an unexpected corner and run into a specific sort of person yet... and it's probably good I hadn't, because if idiot younger me had, they'd have fucked it all up, somehow.

EDIT: Idiot younger me would've definitely fucked it up, and idiot current me still has to be wary of fucking it up.

[Al Qədic]

Searched for random things in here on a whim just now, noticed podcast recommendations a few dozen pages back;


The Bright Sessions is a recently-ish concluded podcast about a psychiatrist treating teens and adults whose maladies happen to be superpowers and various supernatural abilities combined with actual mental health issues (spontaneous time travel brought on by anxiety attacks, empathic abilities with a healthy dose of sensory issues, good ol' psychopathy with a hint of mind-control, etc.)


Ars Paradoxica revolves around the spoopy and mysterious Philadelphia Experiment, where a government project trying to cloak a battleship with scientism in the midst of WWII ends up being interrupted by another science mishap in the 2XXX's, wherein our main character gets teleported to the U.S.S. Eldridge, gets recruited by the feds, ends up on a research team out in the desert to rival the one that actually made The Bomb, and has to deal with temporal shenanigans as a result of her own displacement. Also the government quickly learns to weaponize said shenanigans, so there are neat butterfly effect things in place. Haven't caught up with it myself yet (been busy, and some of the secret codes at the end of episodes have me stumped for the time being). Has some of the same voice actors as Bright Sessions, iirc.


Also hi all. Feels like it's been a while since I've been in the swing of things. Scholarships and the inevitable bugbears and growing pains of the start of transition have been fun hurdles to surmount.

[altered]

Glad to hear you're okay. And I'm envious about the start of transition thing, I'm still years behind. Good luck with it!

[Al Qədic]

Glad to hear you're okay. And I'm envious about the start of transition thing, I'm still years behind. Good luck with it!

Aw, thanks Null~    I'm not on hormones yet (far from it at this rate, we'll see). But yeah, just two meetings in with the psych person who's supposed to validate my trans-ness and help get me the referrals I need to get to endo and whatnot. Instead of that I've been met with the brick wall that is psych person not Doing It Right and assuming that non-crippling dysphoria and a lack of hate for my dick clearly means that I'm just non-binary and not a lady.


So yeah, they've already gotten a little letter from me (and their supervisor will get a copy too once I can figure out how to contact him), and I'll be looking for someone else to handle that side of medical bureaucracy in their stead.


In other related news, the trans support groups I've been attending (both in and outside of my health care provider) have been real neat. I learned that trans guys have their dicks not just constructed from arm skin, but they actually build it on the arm, create the necessary blood flow for the tissue to survive, and then they relocate it to the groin.


What a weird medical world we live in.

[altered]

Medical science is crazy. A few years back a replacement eye was made from a wad of meat and a tooth. I'm not joking.

It looked like Resident Evil and gave about the same visual acuity as the artificial options currently available, but those options took decades and this was an experimental first time thing. So given a few decades and some dedicated people, meaty tooth eyes might be the thing, and you'd never know, and that's fucking awesome.

[Al Qədic]

Medical science is crazy. A few years back a replacement eye was made from a wad of meat and a tooth. I'm not joking.

It looked like Resident Evil and gave about the same visual acuity as the artificial options currently available, but those options took decades and this was an experimental first time thing. So given a few decades and some dedicated people, meaty tooth eyes might be the thing, and you'd never know, and that's fucking awesome.

My brain just misread "tooth" as "toothpick"...and either way, that is fucking awesome.

[P3nT4gR4m]

I demand meaty tooth eyes and I demand them right fucking now!

[Cain]

I demand meaty tooth eyes and I demand them right fucking now!

You should grow them on your arm. Along with a penis.

Combine the two and men will at long last have an answer to vaginal dentata.

[Al Qədic]

I demand meaty tooth eyes and I demand them right fucking now!

You should grow them on your arm. Along with a penis.

Combine the two and men will at long last have an answer to vaginal dentata.

Meat teeth and arm dicks? That's way too much effort for a male vagina dentata equivalent. Steal the obsidian teeth from the vagina of the Maori night goddess who killed Maui...then build an arm dick!